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...makeup is called "Zen Blush"; a new sitcom, Dharma and Greg. A designer fruit-juice container entreats, "Please recycle this bottle. It deserves to be reincarnated too." A Buddhist temple is where Al Gore came into some dubious campaign money, and monks star in computer commercials. Type buddhism into the search engine of amazon.com the Internet bookstore, and it spits back 1,200 titles, from scriptures to modern inspirational writings to a robust selection of cookbooks. And then there is Hollywood, where more and more people seem torn between a sincere desire to conquer ego and the drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Have we all been here before? Yes, and in this lifetime too. America flirted with Buddhism in the 1950s and again in the '70s; vestiges of those dalliances still waft, pleasant yet amorphous, through the pop atmosphere. Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson applies Zen to the art of Michael maintenance, and Tina Turner and Herbie Hancock chant Buddhist mantras. Terms such as Nirvana and koan are in common usage, if seldom understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Harvard coach Tim Murphy's opening comments at his post-rout press conference had a strangely Zen sound to them-particularly after his Crimson had roughed up a Lions squad that looked like it had arrived straight from the late 1980s...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Reserving Judgement | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...years, Harvey's wooden statue became a 40-ft.-high man; the flames leaped higher, and the crowd grew ever more animated and theatrical. The intensity eventually taxed even the beatnik- and hippie-hardened San Francisco police, who asked Harvey and his acolytes to move off the beach. The Zen of the desert beckoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONFIRE OF THE TECHIES | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

Jobs is intimidating at first. He has, after all, been portrayed as an abusive monster, and countless colleagues attest to his arrogance and intolerance. But now, even during the week of the highest stress he has faced in years, he exudes his other side: the Zen-like calm and the impish aura that make him so different from his arch friend and arch rival Gates, a man of competitive intensity and analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEVE'S JOB: RESTART APPLE | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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